When people say that Gen Z is fucked, I used to scoff at them thinking it's not that bad as they make it out to be.

But I've witnessed it first hand now, it's real. Totally real. I only spoke about my salaries in my resume video and people are actually thanking me for telling the truth.

They're soooo used to getting told lies to, that someone even speaking a little bit truth is mind blowing to them. It breaks my heart, honestly.

I'm at 10K subs now 😄
Who wants to party?

Mom, Look at me. I'm famous.

Seriously I would throw you guys a party if I knew y'all personally.

Let me confess something:

I've used funny stories I heard from friends to tell to other people as my own to appear funnier and cooler.

ughh I have to have sex with my hot blonde gf while the toilet bowl is full of the large pieces of shits I dropped in them. How can I get so much shit in my bladder it's insane.

The entire modern gaming ecosystem is a scam.

I added The Crew: Motorfest trial version to my library for free.

Click on Install and it downloads 43 GB of data.
Now it's time to launch.
Click on launch and Ubisoft Connect takes over and it starts downloading another 43 GB??????

WTF ??

If I can't even get the trial version of a game without nearly wanting to kill myself, how does the company expect me to pay full price for it?

Piracy FTW. Fuck all the companies.

You keeping your devRant profile background yellow color is basically, you screaming "I'm gay" at the top of your lungs here.

It's a sad way to live, where you only want like-minded people around you.

Like you being a software developer only wanting to be around software developers.

Thanos did nothing wrong with wiping out 50% of all living beings.

There is such a thing called "building wayyyy too many features in the product that 99% of the user base won't even care about"

I think that management does it because of this mentality, "The more features we have, the better our product would be".

This may get me some hate from y'all but let me make a confession here.

I have taken away clients from my previous bosses when they made the mistake of giving the client direct access to me outside the company.

It happened in 2019, my manager gave the client my phone number so they could directly call me and assign me tasks. Well, I left that company and took the client away with me. Heck, I even made more money for the next 4 months from the client than the company was paying me.

Again in 2023 when I left my job, I sent out LinkedIn requests to all members of the client's org, hoping that they'd remember me and reach out for projects. Well, 2 months into leaving the company, they did reach out and now I'm making 3X what I was making before.

I'd do it again in the future again and again. If YOU and I partner up to work for a client, I will make sure that you are out of the equation ASAP.

There, I said it. I've done it twice and I'll do it again in the future.

Here's something that should be a standard rule for writing APIs:

When you offer a date filter for your API, the date format passed in should be a UNIX timestamp and not a literal date. For example,

Incorrect API URL format: '?start_date=2024-03-01&end_date=2024-04-01'

Correct API URL format: '?start_date=1709251200&end_date=1711929600'

I'm never buying expensive phones ever again. Ny Asus ROG Phone 5S which I spent $480 for, got its WiFi and Hotspot feature completely broken just 13 months after I bought it.

I looked it up and many other people are having the same problem and it turned out that it was a manufacturer defect

So Asus bricked my phone on purpose.

I'm not explaining why I am saying this, but,

Fuck AI, Fuck OpenAI, Fuck Sora, Fuck Sam Altman and especially, wait for it, especially, Fuck Devin.

Question for the crypto users here:

Is paying someone/getting paid via a crypto transaction better than getting paid through Wire/Bank transfer, where you're dealing with overseas payments?

Do you recommend people having a crypto wallet so they can get paid overseas easily?

Any app is a dating app if you're Indian enough

If you're homeless, just buy a house

A single update broke my Asus RoG phone 5S.

WhatsApp has started to silently get voice calls out of nowhere.

New messages don't ring a notification sound anymore. Nor any updates on the lock screen/notification drawer.

WiFi doesn't connect automatically after turning it on. The list doesn't even show up. I have to turn my phone off and turn it back on after 5 mins to restore that functionality.

My phone automatically switches off at 18% battery. I've seen it happen 3 times by now.

Fuck modern software.

The new WhatsApp UI update sucks ass. Holy shit please let software be how it is.

*starts work day*

"Let me put some music on so I can hum tunes while I code"

*10 mins into working*

"Oh wait, I gotta focus here"

*Turns music off*

Result: Music stays off the entire day.

I choked on my own saliva and I coughed so much I felt like my chest would explode, and now I've got chest pain because of it.

I hate life at this point.

I've officially entered my 30s.
I ate food the wrong way and my entire left torso hurts.

Yeah .... this is how it starts isn't it

I've started to work standing up as a health measure. But my ankles hurt so much 😭.

ok I'll say it once again -

Fuck Devin, Fuck Sora, Fuck OpenAI, Fuck ChatGPT and fuck the worst of all, Microsoft.

Do you ever feel like your mind has entered this "hyper" mode where you feel like your mind is in overdrive? Like you're processing several thoughts in your head at once, and that leaves you in a state where you can't get anything done?

It happens to me like once a week and boy is it satisfying when it goes away and I can feel my head cool down.

My freelancing journey so far:

In Jan, I continued working for an Indian client I got back in November last year. A Shopify app built with Laravel/MySQL stack.

In Feb, I got three more clients. One, who's from Bulgaria, wants a Shopify app built with Laravel/MySQL
The second one, who's from the UK, wants me to convert their Yii2 application to Laravel.
The third one, also a UK client, wants me to integrate a fulfillment center to their Shopify store.

This month, I continued working for the above clients and now the Bulgarian client wants me to work on a Typescript + Svelte application. I'm really excited for it.

So yeah.. Just wanted to share it. I'm not making a point or any joke or something.

Coding YouTubers existence is the reason the quality of new age software engineers is going down the hill.

Learn MERN stack,
PHP's dead,
Buy my course, it's 20% off
Learn just good enough that you can land a job
Learn how to prompt ChatGPT better

These shitty pieces of advice will never enable software engineers to truly understand the core concepts of what they're doing.

It's sad, really.

Saying "Java is the best programming language because it works across all platforms" is the same as saying "Butt sex is the best form of sex because it works across all of the animal kingdom"

I'll post a pic of my nuts one day and caption it "Testicles of the day"

Let me be honest. I've been freelancing full-time for 2 months now (started 1st Jan 2024) and this feeling of not working for a company is making me feel weird.

Like I'm missing out on something. I am making significantly more money than I used to, though, which is my only feedback from this line of work that is giving me the motivation to continue doing this.

I'm sure I'm just overthinking.